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crow's foot en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English crowes feet pl.

Meanings

1. (plural-normally) A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.
   • You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman. 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 305–306:
   • The Food and Drug Administration says it's an effective temporary treatment for crow's feet, the wrinkles that form next to aging eyes. 2013 September 11, Kim Painter, “New wrinkle: Botox approved to treat crow's feet”, in USA Today:
2. A triangular embroidery stitch.
3. A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
   • The crow's-foot notation similarly represents relationships. 1999, Robert J Muller, Database Design for Smarties:
   • Each crow's foot in your ER diagram indicates the need for a foreign key. 2007, Geoff Coffey, Susan Prosser, Filemaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual:
4. A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
5. A caltrop.
6. A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.
   • My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level. 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
7. Certain flowering plants
8. Certain flowering plants ▸ especially, in genus Ranunculus

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Translations (2)

pl kurze łapki (wrinkle in the corner of an eye) · pt pé de galinha (wrinkle in the corner of an eye)